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Atonement features strong performances, brilliant cinematography, and a unique score. Featuring deft performances from James MacAvoy and Keira Knightley, it's a successful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.
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Joe Wright directs Atonement with an eye to framing each performance with spectacularly vivid images, including a genuinely breathtaking tracking shot on the bloody, wreckage-strewn beach at Dunkirk. October 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Joe Wright directs Atonement with an eye to framing each performance with spectacularly vivid images, including a genuinely breathtaking tracking shot on the bloody, wreckage-strewn beach at Dunkirk.
Bob Mondello
Atonement is a film out of balance, nimble enough in its first half but oddly scattered and ungainly once it leaves the grounds of the Tallis estate. September 22, 2008 | Full Review…
Atonement is a film out of balance, nimble enough in its first half but oddly scattered and ungainly once it leaves the grounds of the Tallis estate.
Christopher Orr
Sweeping, showy, and stiff, Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's pedigreed bestseller traffics in florid staging and callow emotions. January 29, 2008 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Sweeping, showy, and stiff, Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's pedigreed bestseller traffics in florid staging and callow emotions.
Amy Nicholson
Atonement's extraordinary qualities outweigh any quibbles. January 18, 2008 | Rating: 4/6
Atonement's extraordinary qualities outweigh any quibbles.
David Fear
One of the few adaptations that gives a novel the film it deserves. January 14, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4
One of the few adaptations that gives a novel the film it deserves.
Kenneth Turan
Somehow the intensity of McEwan's voice hasn't survived and once we move beyond the magic of that lost summer's day, the film becomes a strangely cool and cerebral experience. December 21, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Somehow the intensity of McEwan's voice hasn't survived and once we move beyond the magic of that lost summer's day, the film becomes a strangely cool and cerebral experience.
Sandra Hall
This level of storytelling and artistry is a rare treat, demonstrating director Joe Wright's knack for working with adapted material. November 24, 2020 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
This level of storytelling and artistry is a rare treat, demonstrating director Joe Wright's knack for working with adapted material.
Mike Massie
Joe Wright (director) and Christopher Hampton (writer) have not only built an exciting epic from the book, but also provide the visual discovery of an ending that was already outstanding in the novel, but... reaches new heights. [Full review in Spanish] October 14, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Joe Wright (director) and Christopher Hampton (writer) have not only built an exciting epic from the book, but also provide the visual discovery of an ending that was already outstanding in the novel, but... reaches new heights. [Full review in Spanish]
Josu Lapresa
McAvoy, long an underrated actor and also a Golden Globe nominee, fares even better here as the wrongly accused Robbie. September 2, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0 | Full Review…
McAvoy, long an underrated actor and also a Golden Globe nominee, fares even better here as the wrongly accused Robbie.
Richard Propes
Where Wright does succeed is in making absolutely lucid McEwan's fascinating central theme of atonement. October 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Where Wright does succeed is in making absolutely lucid McEwan's fascinating central theme of atonement.
PJ Nabarro
Every bit as emotionally affecting as it is visually sweeping. July 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Every bit as emotionally affecting as it is visually sweeping.
Matthew Lucas
It is an elegant and sophisticated film, one that never condescends or shirks from the complexity of the novel and its grand themes - war, love, sex, memory, betrayal, redemption - but it's also strangely unfeeling. August 23, 2018 | Full Review…
It is an elegant and sophisticated film, one that never condescends or shirks from the complexity of the novel and its grand themes - war, love, sex, memory, betrayal, redemption - but it's also strangely unfeeling.
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